The reason for the foster care is stated in the article:

“But a social worker from the Children and Family Court Advisory Service CAFCASS said she believed Lucy had been neglected, underfed and under stimulated.”

I’m ready.

DuckDuckGo/Bing is pretty bad at finding stuff in my native language. That’s why I use Startpage (and sometimes even Google) more nowadays.

Same here. There’s many games I want to try/play but they are too expensive.

Even though it’s easier to find information than like 30 years before, kids nowadays do NOT look for news or some other “sensible” information. They watch stupid TikTok videos and things like that (yes yes, there’s always some exceptions). Smartphones has become a big problem in schools. You would know that if you followed the news.

Seems like you are getting downvoted, but I agree with you that nowadays people use words like nazi and fascist very loosely. I’m very sure that a large part of the people can’t tell what nazi or fascist really is without looking it on Wikipedia.

Happens to me everyday at least few times.

I actually know FreeTube but for some reason I haven’t even tried it yet, but now I will. Thanks.

If I remember correctly I started deGoogling “seriously” in the last summer. At this point YouTube and Youtube Music are the only Google products/services I still use daily but only on PC. I never use them on phone. I also am quite forced to use Gmail sometimes but otherwise I avoid it like a plague.

I think my phone is as deGoogled as possible without rooting and/or changing the OS. I have uninstalled every Google app that I have been able to uninstall and also I have disabled every Google service that is possible to disable. I still have to deMicrosoft my PC. I want to move to Linux but I have understood that there’s some compatibility issues with Reaper and virtual instruments. That’s the only reason I haven’t done it yet.

Anyway. Here is a list of apps/services I use instead of Google’s sh*t:

• Browser: Waterfox on PC and Ironfox on phone (of course both with uBlock Origin)
• Cloud storage: Proton Drive
• Email: Proton Mail
• Calendar: Proton Calendar
• Authenticator: Aegis
• Map: OsmAnd
• Search engine: DuckDuckGo and Brave Search
• Play Store: Droid-ify and Aurora Store (not signed in)
• Speech Recognition & Synthesis: SherpaTTS
• Find My Device: FindMyDevice (FOSS)

I think that’s all. There’s some other FOSS apps and services that I use but they are not exactly replacements for Google’s sh*t.